DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Feminine Fascism

Women in Britain's Fascist Movement

Julie V Gottlieb author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:28th Mar '03

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Feminine Fascism cover

Looking at female fascist activism and the influence of feminist ideology on the British Fascist agenda, this text examines the significance of the impact of feminist thought in this area.

How far did women support Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts? This reference aims to fill a significant gap in the historiography of British fascism, which has generally overlooked the contribution of the women's movement to Britain's fascist experience. Looking at female fascist activism and the influence of feminist ideology on the fascist agenda, Gottlieb shows the significant impact of feminist thought in this area. In spite of its mainstream vocal opposition to fascism, parts of the women's movement as Gottlieb demonstrates, had an implicit connection with the British Union of Fascists.

'...it must be emphatically stated that this is both an original and important book which has major significance for both gender studies, and the history of British Fascism.' -English Historical Review 'If anyone was tempted to believe, given the plethora of works on British fascism, that there was little left to say, Julia Gottlieb's Feminine Fascism would disabuse them.' -Times Higher Education

ISBN: 9781860649189

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 502g

400 pages

New edition